Opioid drug manufacturer found to have repeatedly bribed doctors with lucrative kickbacks

(Natural News)
If there was any lingering doubt in your mind that the major pharmaceutical manufacturers in the United States are truly evil, this story should kill it once and for all. The Daily Mail recently reported that the state of Arizona is suing pharma giant Insys – manufacturer of the fentanyl-based drug Subsys – for giving doctors hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks to write illegal prescriptions for the highly addictive drug, netting themselves a cool $33 million in the last five years in the process.

Subsys is so addictive that it is a drug of last resort, and can only legally be prescribed for cancer patients who are in excruciating pain, and for whom no better pain relief exists. As noted in an earlier Natural News article, fentanyl is 50 times stronger than pure heroin, and is 100 times more potent than morphine:

Fentanyl, a powerful prescription pain medication, is an entirely synthetic opioid initially meant to ease cancer patients to death. Even with its intended purpose, health regulation groups repeatedly warn of the drug’s deadly side effects and caution doctors to only prescribe it as a last resort. That being said, recent data reveals that more doctors are prescribing fentanyl to their patients, even for cases such as tonsillitis.

The state of Arizona is pursuing legal action against at least three such doctors: Steve Fanto, Nikesh Seth and Sheldon Gingerich, none of whom responded to the Mail’s requests for comment.

The pharma company’s fraudulent activities were not confined to Arizona, either; they are facing numerous lawsuits on a state and federal level for similar activities across the country.

Six former Insys executives and managers, including former Chief Executive Michael Babich, have been implicated in the fraud and are facing criminal charges. Several other staff members, across multiple states, have also been charged with similar crimes.

The Mail explains how America’s opioid addiction rapidly spiraled out of control:

In the early 2000s, the FDA and CDC started to notice a steady increase in cases of opioid addiction and overdose. In 2013, they issued guidelines to curb addiction. However, that same year – now regarded as the year the epidemic took hold – a CDC report revealed an unprecedented surge in rates of opioid addiction. Overdose deaths are now the leading cause of death among young Americans – killing more in a year than were ever killed annually by HIV, gun violence or car crashes.

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